Track 16 Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave
310.264.4678
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Saturday Nov 5, 2011 (8pm)
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$10
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“Lun*na Menoh's comprehensive body of work includes a standing gig with Japanese art-rock band Seksu Roba, a piece in the Victoria & Albert Museum's permanent collection, exhibits at Laguna Art Museum and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and a retrospective at Track 16 Gallery. Drawing on clothing design as inspiration, the Japanese-born artist makes playful creations that subtly reveal sobering themes of alienation, loss, and decay. Whether working with re-imagined dress forms or painting the soiled collars of headless icons, the Los Angeles-based artist's genre-bending approach merges popular culture with fine art — challenging the variable boundary between the two through an innovative blend of sculpture, fashion, music, and visual art.”
Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill
In Maximum Miniature: Scale Behavior in Style, a unique runway performance and exhibition, Lun*na has scaled a series of clothing items and accessories in four gradations, from small to very large, calling attention to the ubiquitous role that size plays on the function of a designed object. For instance, a choker becomes an oversized bow tie or a fanny pack becomes a travel bag, as Lun*na moves the concept of size and scale out from the dressing room and onto the runway. Each of the finished couture pieces in Maximum Miniature: Scale Behavior in Style is handmade by the artist designer in her Silverlake, Los Angeles studio, utilizing her signature raw materials--reclaimed and re-appropriated clothing alongside other personal and commercial castoffs.
